Sr. Associate, Compliance

• Position title: Sr.Associate,Compliance
• Location: Mohali
• Position Type: Regular, Full-Time

Who we are

• Roundglass is a wholistic wellbeing company working to
• empower healthier lives, stronger communities, and a more sustainable world.
• That w in wholistic is intentional: We believe in true wellbeing spans the whole human experience, from how we care for ourselves to our
• connections with others and the planet.
• Roundglass creates real-world
• impact through diverse, interconnected initiatives. Roundglass Foundation
• drives our development work in communities and ecosystems across India, while the Roundglass
• Living app delivers personalized, science-backed wellbeing guidance to
• individuals around the world.
• We're driven by a mission to make wellbeing accessible
• and actionable for everyone, everywhere. That mission shapes how we work and
• show up for each other. If you're committed to creating meaningful impact and
• want to help build a culture that reflects it, we'd love to meet you.

About Roundglass Foundation

• From empowering rural villages to nurturing world-class
• athletes and documenting biodiversity, Roundglass Foundation has been
• transforming communities and ecosystems across India since 2018. Through
• Roundglass Punjab, Roundglass Sports, and Roundglass Sustain, we drive
• long-term, systemic change in close collaboration with local communities and
• administrations, reaching to date. Everything we do reflects a single belief:
• Meaningful progress happens when leadership, opportunity, and community
• wellbeing grow together.

About the role

• We are looking for an experienced Finance
• & Compliance professional to strengthen the organization’s governance and
• compliance framework. The role will be responsible for managing the
• Foundation’s finance operations, Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA)
• compliance, statutory and regulatory reporting, grant accounting, financial
• controls, and audit requirements. The role will ensure that all domestic and
• foreign contributions are received, accounted for, utilized, and reported in
• accordance with applicable laws, donor requirements, and internal policies.

The

• position will work closely with Finance, Programs, Fundraising, Procurement,
• Human Resources (HR), Legal, auditors, banks, and senior management to ensure
• strong financial governance and compliance. The ideal candidate should have
• strong working experience in a corporate environment, excellent stakeholder and
• reporting skills, and experience working in a multi-functional business
• environment.

What you’ll do

• ·Ensure end-to-end compliance with the
• Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) and applicable rules,
• notifications and regulatory requirements.
• ·Supervise proper accounting and
• documentation of foreign contributions, including donor-wise, project-wise,
• location-wise and purpose-wise tracking.
• ·Develop and review to implement
• compliance policies, SOPs, controls and governance frameworks for Foundation.
• ·Monitor utilization of foreign
• contributions against approved objectives and donor/project budgets. Ensure
• that foreign contribution is not utilized for prohibited or non-permissible
• purposes.
• ·Conduct periodic compliance reviews, risk
• assessments and internal audits to identify gaps and recommend corrective
• actions.
• ·Maintain complete records, supporting
• documents, donor correspondence and utilization evidence for regulatory
• inspection.
• ·Partner with Legal, Finance, HR,
• Procurement, Operations and other teams to ensure adherence to applicable
• regulations and internal policies.
• ·Coordinate with external consultants,
• auditors, and government authorities, wherever required. Coordinate FCRA
• audits, regulatory reviews and responses to observations/notices.
• ·Prepare periodic compliance dashboards
• and management reports, highlighting risks, pending actions and key
• developments.
• ·Conduct compliance awareness sessions and
• ensure employees understand relevant organizational policies and regulatory
• requirements.
• ·Establish strong documentation and
• record-management practices to ensure audit readiness.
• oMaintain
• separate and appropriate accounting/tracking for:
• oDomestic
• funds
• oFCRA
• funds
• oRestricted
• grants
• oUnrestricted
• funds
• oProject/program-specific
• funds
• ·Review grant budgets versus actual
• expenditure and identify variances. Prepare donor financial reports and
• utilization statements.
• ·Coordinate with Program/Fundraising teams
• before financial commitments are made to donors.

Requirements

Skills

& Qualifications

• ·Chartered Accountant (CA) preferred.
• ·Chartered Accountancy Intermediate (CA Inter), Cost and Management
• Accountant (CMA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance, or Master
• of Commerce (M.Com) with strong Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) and
• Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) experience may also be considered for the
• Manager level.
• ·5–10 years of relevant experience, preferably with an NGO, Foundation, or
• Section 8 Company.
• ·Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in FCRA and NGO financial
• compliance is mandatory.
• ·Experience in grant accounting, donor reporting, internal controls, and
• Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) development.
• ·Good understanding of applicable corporate, statutory, and regulatory
• requirements.
• ·High integrity, resilience, accountability, and cultural sensitivity.
• ·Reports to: Chief Financial
• Officer (CFO) / Head of Finance / Finance Controller.

Benefits

Why Roundglass

• Roundglass was built on the vision that wellbeing should be
• at the very center of our life journeys. We're reimagining how the world
• experiences wellbeing and how companies, including our own, support the
• wellbeing of their people.
• We're a group of mission-driven innovators who put our
• values into practice every day, using technology, science, and traditional
• wisdom to help people live better lives. We've built a team we're proud of, and
• we're always looking for people who will add to it.
• To learn more, visit our Website, Facebook, Instagramand LinkedIn.
• Roundglass does not discriminate against race, color, religion, sex,
• sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy (including
• childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age,
• physical and mental disability, marital status, genetic information (including
• characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other
• characteristic protected by applicable law.
• We rely on legitimate interest as a legal
• basis for processing personal information under the GDPR for purposes of
• recruitment and applications for employment.